[alexandria-devel] curry and rcurry -> papply and rpapply?

[Nikodemus Siivola]

2009/6/4 szergling <senatorzergling at gmail.com>:
> Hi Alexandrians,
>
> I believe curry and rcurry are the wrong names for the current
> functions in Alexandria. See the following for example,
>
> http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-26/mail-archive/msg00000.html
> http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-26/mail-archive/msg00015.html
>
> What about papply or partial-apply? Or maybe p-apply? This way, The
> reversed version might be called rp-apply. Otherwise
> reverse-partial-apply?
>
> I am aware that this is a common usage/mistake in CL, but Alexandria
> doesn't have to perpetuate this error. An unfortunate downside is
> breaking backwards compatibility. I'm not sure what Alexandria's
> policy is regarding this...
>
> I'm happy to send patches if this renaming is agreed upon.

I'm not sure. I'm not totally opposed, but I'm not convinced either:
even if it wrong, the names are "culturally correct", if you will.
Names partial-apply and partial-reverse-apply would be my preferred
ones if we did the renaming.

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus